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Christian Science blesses mankind with the encouraging truth that, out of every experience, however cruel or unjustified to human sense, a clearer sense of the goodness of God, and the powerlessness of evil, must ultimately emerge.   Regarding the Science of Christianity, for instance, confrontations with imposition and condemnation, along with the victories that follow, certainly are nothing new.

The need for right supply is such an important issue because it relates to every facet of human experience, both on an individual and a global level. Supply needs to be demonstrated in terms of having enough food and clean water for a growing population, enough financial resources for individuals and municipalities, jobs for people to earn a decent living, affordable housing for all, and even spiritual inspiration to draw on so that we can find healing in difficulties that may arise and live a meaningful and purpose-filled life.

Sometimes it may seem that what we want most in life is healing. Perhaps we’ve struggled with a long-term illness or condition.

The Apostle Paul tells us that if we are “in Christ,” we are “a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” ( II Corinthians 5:17 ). Some Bible commentaries put forth the idea that to be “in Christ” is to be “united” with Christ.

Sometimes ideas converge in a new and inspiring way that brings spiritual light right at the moment we need it. Recently, while flying at 38,000 feet on a transatlantic flight, I had an insight about the relation between Soul, body, and the Holy Ghost that brought about an instantaneous healing.

“This is dull. ” Honestly, that was my response when I left the Christian Science Sunday School at the age of twenty and started to attend the Sunday services at my branch church.

The Apostle Paul talks about the need to “put off the old man” so we can “put on the new man. ” He says, “Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him” ( Colossians 3:9, 10 ).

The author shows how “our Church feeds the Christ-hungry with the pure truths of God and spiritual man, which alone will save mankind from destructive materialism.”

Have you heard the phrase “Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty”? Author Anne Herbert wrote it on a restaurant place mat in Sausalito, California, in 1982, and it went on to become the title of a book she coauthored as well as a popular motto.   No doubt the world would be a much better place if we all practiced individual kindness every day! Yet random human attempts to do good, as laudable as they are, certainly are not enough to confront and eradicate organized evil, especially the organized terror that is confronting the world these days on the basis of radical and misplaced theological hatred.

One particular group of people has a type of bond that is perhaps unequaled by any other. This group is found in a Christian Science church service.